Ontario's Provincial Plaques

Here's where you can learn a little Ontario history.

'Rockwood' 1842

Photo by Alan L Brown - June 5, 2004

Plaque Location

The County of Frontenac
The City of Kingston
Just off the entrance road to the Providence Continuing Care Centre on King Street West across from Portsmouth Avenue

Plaque Text

Rockwood was built in 1842 as a country villa for John Solomon Cartwright (1804-1845). Designed by George Browne, architect of the Kingston City Hall, in a monumental phase of the Regency style, it is a stone structure covered with stucco but lined to suggest ashlar masonry. Cartwright began to practise law in Kingston in 1830 and in 1831, became president of the Commercial Bank of the Midland District. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada in 1836 and of Canada in 1841. The government acquired this property in 1856 as site for a "Criminal Lunatic Asylum". With another building erected in 1859, it became the nucleus of the present psychiatric hospital.

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